by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Lurleen B Wallace Community College was awarded 18 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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College Factual ranked Lurleen B. Wallace Community College as #1,631 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Lurleen B. Wallace Community College held the #1,821 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Lurleen B. Wallace Community College also holds the #23 spot on the Best Colleges in Alabama ranking.
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If you are worried about getting into Lurleen B Wallace Community College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Lurleen B Wallace Community College, this ratio is 16 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Lurleen B Wallace Community College is 67%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Lurleen B Wallace Community College is 63%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,666 undergraduates at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College with 758 being full-time and 908 being part-time.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, approximately 19% of students took out student loans averaging $3,401 a year. That adds up to $13,604 over four years for those students.
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Get more details about the location of Lurleen B Wallace Community College.
Contact details for Lurleen B. Wallace Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1000 Dannelly Blvd., Andalusia, AL 36420-1224 |
| Phone: | 334-222-6591 |
| Website: | https://www.lbwcc.edu/ |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2020-2021, 1,139 students took at least one online class at Lurleen B Wallace Community College. This is an increase from the 913 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,139 | 423 |
| 2019-2020 | 913 | 221 |
| 2018-2019 | 838 | 174 |
| 2017-2018 | 710 | 105 |
| 2016-2017 | 712 | 89 |
Learn more about online learning at Lurleen B Wallace Community College.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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